A Limit to Intelligence
In Singularity theory, we often assume there is no limit to the growth of intelligence. That may not be an accurate assumption. While we cannot currently define a limiting factor,…
Issues and Consideration of GUI Development
What is a GUI? A graphical user interface (GUI) is an interface to a system that uses more than just text on the screen. It can use pointers (such as…
Interacting With Intelligent Software
As our software embeds more human intelligence and more human behavior, we can expect to interact with it in a more human fashion. At one point, in the beginning of…
If the World is a Program
When we first learn geography we learn about how the world first came into existence. Some say that the Earth owes it’s existence to a massive supernova while some others…
Beyond Turing
The historical standard for testing AIs for intelligence has been the Turing Test. But it can be argued that the Turing test only confirms a mimicry of human conversation and…
A Bit of Logic: Understanding Bytes and Bits
If you haven’t heard already, a byte is a sequence of eight binary units. These binary units are called bits. While this is no great secret, the functioning of bits…
Expert Systems
An expert system is software that attempts to mimic human expertise by searching through a database of known answers or solutions in order to help solve a problem. Chains of…
Introduction to Game Programming or the Appaholic’s Ten-Step Program
Hello there, and welcome to my little article about making computer games. I assume that you’re reading this because you are at least a little interested in writing games. If…
Overview of Contract Programming
There are lots of avenues you can take to becoming a contract programmer. But before we explore some of those, you need to find out what you intend to do.…
Why do I Want to Use a JOIN Clause?
Recently a friend of mine asked me why he should use a JOIN statement rather than adding extra criteria to the where clause. It’s an interesting question, and I thought…